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noun

Shrine n.

A case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint.

Any sacred place, as an altar, tromb, or the like. "Too weak the sacred shrine guard."

A place or object hallowed from its history or associations; as, a shrine of art.

Short for Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, a secret fraternal organization professedly originated by one Kalif Alu, a son-in-law of Mohammed, at Mecca, in the year of the Hegira 25 (about 646 a. d.) In the modern order, established in the United States in 1872, only Knights Templars or thirty-second degree Masons are eligible for admission, though the order itself is not Masonic. A member of the order is popularly called a Shriner, and the order itself is sometimes called the Shriners.

verb

Shrine v. t. To enshrine; to place reverently, as in a shrine. "Shrined in his sanctuary."

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Etymology of 'Shrine'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shrine" Quotes from Famous Books

... the contrary, was too great a love for the present world. Unfortunately, she had fixed her heart upon what is too evanescent for the love of an immortal. Youth, beauty, and the graces of fashion were the shadows at whose shrine she worshiped, though the substance was gone. Thus precious time was spent in seeking to repair its own breaches, and she saw not that they widened day by day—saw not how the cunning device by which she sought to hide the footprint of years, only left that foot-print ...

— Be Courteous • Mrs. M. H. Maxwell

... on alone two days and two nights, and nigh morn she was seized with a swoon of weariness, and fell forward with her face to the earth, and lay there prostrate, even as one that is adoring the shrine; and it was on the sands of the desert she was lying. It chanced that the Chieftain of a desert tribe passed at midday by the spot, and seeing the figure of a damsel unshaded' by any shade of tree or herb or tent-covering, and prostrate on the sands, he reined his steed and leaned forward to ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... his household shrine Here Cowley lies, closed in a little den; A life too empty and his lot combine To give him rest from all ...

— Cowley's Essays • Abraham Cowley

... she's just elegant," declared Cathie Harrison, who had privately done a good deal of worshiping at Mrs. Fisher's shrine. ...

— Five Little Peppers Grown Up • Margaret Sidney

... an initiate to the mysteries of this inner shrine would have wondered to the degree of amazement, for this newcomer was an ostensible enemy of Bas Rowlett's whom in other company ...

— The Roof Tree • Charles Neville Buck

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